According to ESPN via an unnamed source, the Patriots videotaped the Rams a day before Super Bowl XXXVI.
According to the report, an unnamed source close to the team during the 2001 season said that following the Patriots’ walkthrough at the Louisiana Superdome, a member of the team’s video staff stayed behind and taped the Rams’ walkthrough — a non-contact, no-pads practice at reduced speed in which a team goes through its plays.
The cameraman was not asked to identify himself or produce a press pass and rode the media shuttle back to the Patriots’ hotel after it was over, a source told the Herald. It is not known what became of the tape afterwards, or whether the cameraman made the tape on his own initiative or at someone else’s instruction, according to the report.
This is a little too convenient for me. Why is this just coming out a day before Super Bowl XVII? Obviously I wasn’t there and therefore don’t have any idea if the story is true or not, but come on – how long ago was spygate? And just now ESPN is stumbling upon this information? Seems like they’re fishing for a story.
